The Shellfish Game (or OMG WTF is he talking about)

Let's play a game!

The Shellfish Game is what i call it. This is where i hide a fact in plane sight somewhere and you try to figure out what i am talking about.

Sound like fun? No? Not to me either.....Lets skip it...

Moving on....

Look at this pic

My pre-breakfast snack, this without chemo involved....I don't even want my Lucky Charms now :-(

We are all products of our environment, some nature some nutture, but ALL product. Kids are born as a blank-slate, tabula-rasa is the clinical description i believe, on the tabula you will have predisposition or a trajectory toward certain behavior characteristics (nature), after that parenting and environment kick in and begin affecting the innate trajectory an infant/youngster/ankle biter would have. This is, obviously, a good thing without the influence of our peers and parents you can imagine where we would wind up as a society.

So...we as children have needs and find ways to describe them to our caregivers and the caregivers respond accordingly. Whether the response is affirmative, negative or to feed or whatever, the feedback to the child is nurture, it will influence the trajectory of the child's in-born  desire to fulfill it's need, either by accepting the positive feedback or by working through the negative feed back and accepting that this (whatever desire it was), is not available or appropriate at this time, these feedbacks go into formulating our new trajectory as a human.

Here is a quick summary of what i think i have tried to say:

Parents are like a grapefruit, they contain all the necessary ingredients to create grapefruit juice, when you squeeze them (with a desire or a nature-request) you get grapefruit juice out of them. Regardless of what the response, the grapefruit juice comes out for the child. It is not the grapefruit that the child receives, because the grapefruit is a product of the parent's trajectory and cannot be given, it is an internal process. SO....the juice is given to the child by consuming the juice this goes to formulating the next generations grapefruit .

Now for the Children: siblings born into the same house will still have there own trajectory at birth, too many variable in the brain for them to be the same. But what happens to the grapefruit? How can the grapefruit juice from the same parents taste so different? Is the juice affecting the grapefruit? how can that be?
Squeeze a grapefruit and taste the juice, you cannot affect the grapfruit through the juice.

Why then the enormous difference in response from two siblings?

Welcome to the Shellfish Game!